Misère et grandeur d’un métier. Les crieurs de journaux dans l’Espagne contemporaine

Historically, newspaper hawkers have played a prominent role in the development of the press, and yet their work has been hard, badly-paid and held in very low social esteem. In a country like Spain, the misery of this occupation was long compounded by the aversion of the Catholic Church, which view...

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Main Author: Víctor Rodríguez Infiesta
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Casa de Velázquez 2011-11-01
Series:Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/mcv/4116
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description Historically, newspaper hawkers have played a prominent role in the development of the press, and yet their work has been hard, badly-paid and held in very low social esteem. In a country like Spain, the misery of this occupation was long compounded by the aversion of the Catholic Church, which viewed hawkers, and mass-circulation press in general, as enemies to be combated. For their part, government authorities feared the consequences of so apparently innocuous an activity as hawking a newspaper, conscious as they were of the ease with which it could channel the expression of dissidence or propitiate public disorder.
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Misère et grandeur d’un métier. Les crieurs de journaux dans l’Espagne contemporaine
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez
Press
Contemporary Spain
Working day
Newspaper sellers
Militant selling
title Misère et grandeur d’un métier. Les crieurs de journaux dans l’Espagne contemporaine
title_full Misère et grandeur d’un métier. Les crieurs de journaux dans l’Espagne contemporaine
title_fullStr Misère et grandeur d’un métier. Les crieurs de journaux dans l’Espagne contemporaine
title_full_unstemmed Misère et grandeur d’un métier. Les crieurs de journaux dans l’Espagne contemporaine
title_short Misère et grandeur d’un métier. Les crieurs de journaux dans l’Espagne contemporaine
title_sort misere et grandeur d un metier les crieurs de journaux dans l espagne contemporaine
topic Press
Contemporary Spain
Working day
Newspaper sellers
Militant selling
url https://journals.openedition.org/mcv/4116
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